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You may be asking yourself - why in heaven's name would someone choose to publish their own book?

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    Do any of you have a favourite letter? I like to do little alliterations with r words. The idea of my readers growling out a sentence just tickles me.#writing #AmWriting #typography #fonts #GraphicDesign #WritingCommunity
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    Question for #publishing folks:I've sent 2 rights reversion requests to my publisher (address verified with my former editor). Can't get confirmation of receipt. What's the best approach here? Keep sending the same letter? Have a lawyer send a copy for me? Head to NYC and try to deliver the letter by hand?FWIW I'm pretty clear they're going to refuse, but I can't even get confirmation they know I've asked. #books #writing #writingcommunity
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    Question for the #WritingCommunity and also for readers. Would be especially grateful to hear from non-white folk.My current WIP is an industrial fantasy and set in a city where โ€œwhiteโ€ people are a minority. The vast majority of the characters have brown skin. None of the cultural and ethnic tensions in the novel โ€” of which there are many โ€” have anything to do with skin colour. None of the โ€œracesโ€ or cultures can be mapped onto Earth versions.I did this because I hate โ€œwhite-as-defaultโ€ in fantasy and in general, because it makes sense with the history of this world, and because while I am writing about cultural and religious conflict, Iโ€™m doing it from the perspective of someone from Northern Ireland, where skin colour has nothing to do with the traditional sectarian tensions. However, I myself am pretty obviously white.Obviously nobody can tell if Iโ€™m being problematic from one post, but I worry anyway. So: if anyone has any thoughts they think I should hear I would be beyond grateful.
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    1/2 You know: they are #scraping every text and book to ingest them in #AITraining. Large #AI companies don't care about intellectual property rights or remuneration.But did you know that they do not simply lend books or give them away to children, people in need, or libraries afterwards? They are torn apart, destroyed, thrown away. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/To show #writers + #authors Anthropic's degree of contempt:#books #bookstodon #Anthropic #waste #writersCommunity #environment #Claude